Here are some images from around the world featuring last night’s lunar eclipse.

Everybody had their cameras turned towards the sky, so we’ve got lots of images to go through.

If you’re British, here’s the BBC’s slideshow of reader photos of the eclipse.

Here’s a couple photos from the Bay City Times.

Nice shot of a red moon.

The Baltimore Sun had some pics of the eclipse as well.

And shots from Eastern Washington. Which as we all know, is the center of the universe. Okay, that’s a lie.

If you’re wondering what a lunar eclipse is (I overheard a lady last night saying that it’s when the sun gets in between the moon and the earth… which would kill us all and obliterate the planet), I’ve gone to wikipedia.org to find the definition.

“A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the moon passes through some portion of the Earth’s shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, the Moon is always full the night of a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon’s location relative to its orbital nodes.”

I feel smarter already.

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